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In a sorry state: England players led by James Haskell and Toby Flood trudge disconsolately from the field in Dublin in 2011 after their attempt to secure the grand slam failed miserablyTimes photographer,Marc Aspland

Ben YoungsCommentary

Last updated at 12:01AM, February 9 2013

The game in Dublin two years ago for me was a real low point in an England
shirt. The tournament had gone really well, we were on a for a grand slam.
And yet it seemed that everything I did in that game went wrong. I was in
quicksand — the harder I tried the deeper I got.

They were running down the wing — as they so often were in the game — wave
after wave of attack. Someone made a tackle, the Irishman flicked it inside
and I caught the ball and ran out with it.